Age-Friendly Route Planner: Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens

Andoni Aranguren; Eneko Osaba; Silvia Urra-Uriarte; Patricia Molina-Costa

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_20

Age-Friendly Route Planner: Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens

Andoni Aranguren
, Eneko Osaba^*
, Silvia Urra-Uriarte
, Patricia Molina-Costa

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

1 Citation (Scopus)

Abstract

The application of routing algorithms to real-world situations is a widely studied research topic. Despite this, routing algorithms and applications are usually developed for a general purpose, meaning that certain groups, such as ageing people, are often marginalized due to the broad approach of the designed algorithms. This situation may pose a problem in cities which are suffering a slow but progressive ageing of their populations. With this motivation in mind, this paper focuses on describing our implemented Age-Friendly Route Planner, whose goal is to improve the experience in the city for senior citizens. In order to measure the age-friendliness of a route, several variables have been deemed, such as the number of amenities along the route, the amount of comfortable elements found, or the avoidance of sloppy sections. In this paper, we describe one of the main features of the Age-Friendly Route Planner: the preference-based routes, and we also demonstrate how it can contribute to the creation of adapted friendly routes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Systems and Technologies - WorldCIST 2023
Editors	Alvaro Rocha, Hojjat Adeli, Gintautas Dzemyda, Fernando Moreira, Valentina Colla
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	192-202
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9783031456503
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_20
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2023 - Pisa, Italy Duration: 4 Apr 2023 → 6 Apr 2023

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	802
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Pisa
Period	4/04/23 → 6/04/23

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Ageing People
Optimization
Route Planning
Senior Citizens
Smart Cities

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_20

Cite this

Aranguren, A., Osaba, E., Urra-Uriarte, S., & Molina-Costa, P. (2024). Age-Friendly Route Planner: Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens. In A. Rocha, H. Adeli, G. Dzemyda, F. Moreira, & V. Colla (Eds.), Information Systems and Technologies - WorldCIST 2023 (pp. 192-202). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 802). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_20

Aranguren, Andoni ; Osaba, Eneko ; Urra-Uriarte, Silvia et al. / Age-Friendly Route Planner : Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens. Information Systems and Technologies - WorldCIST 2023. editor / Alvaro Rocha ; Hojjat Adeli ; Gintautas Dzemyda ; Fernando Moreira ; Valentina Colla. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. pp. 192-202 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Aranguren, A , Osaba, E , Urra-Uriarte, S & Molina-Costa, P 2024, Age-Friendly Route Planner: Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens. in A Rocha, H Adeli, G Dzemyda, F Moreira & V Colla (eds), Information Systems and Technologies - WorldCIST 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 802, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 192-202, 11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2023, Pisa, Italy, 4/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_20

Age-Friendly Route Planner: Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens. / Aranguren, Andoni ; Osaba, Eneko ; Urra-Uriarte, Silvia et al.
Information Systems and Technologies - WorldCIST 2023. ed. / Alvaro Rocha; Hojjat Adeli; Gintautas Dzemyda; Fernando Moreira; Valentina Colla. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. p. 192-202 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 802).

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Aranguren A , Osaba E , Urra-Uriarte S , Molina-Costa P. Age-Friendly Route Planner: Calculating Comfortable Routes for Senior Citizens. In Rocha A, Adeli H, Dzemyda G, Moreira F, Colla V, editors, Information Systems and Technologies - WorldCIST 2023. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2024. p. 192-202. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45651-0_20